September 21, 2009

High Performance: Drink Tea, Live Longer and Prevent Dementia

Perhaps it’s too predictable: Experts find the world’s longest-living people in a remote mountain village on a tiny island in an exotic sea. They party hard, work into their hundreds, and still have sex into their 90s. But then the twist: Their secret isn’t red wine or yogurt or young lovers. The key ingredient to living and loving longer, it seems, is growing right in their gardens.

It’s something most of us do without thinking - walk into the kitchen first thing in the morning and put the kettle on. As a nation, we in the UK drink 165 million cups of tea every day and about 70 million cups of coffee. For every cup of tea or coffee you drink, you take in around 200 mls of fluid, (depending on the size of your cup). About 40 percent of the nation’s fluid intake comes from tea alone.